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Microsoft apologises for 'dancing girls, obscene song lyrics' at Norway conference | Software giant Microsoft has issued an apology for a presentation
in Norway that featured dancing girls and obscene song lyrics after video of the
embarrassing routine went viral. The presentation to the Norwegian Developers
Conference in Oslo last week was aimed at prompting new advances in the firm's
Azure cloud computing platform, According to a report by AllThingsDigital, before
launching into the technical details, Microsoft warmed up the crowd with some
dancers and house music. Unfortunately, the song's lyrics flashed on video screens,
including, 'The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis.' The audience was
not amused, and slammed the software firm on Twitter, The Herald Sun reports.
"For those not here, we had flashing disco lights, bad lyrics about penis, disco
beats and dancing azure girls, so cringeworthy," one programmer tweeted. "Wow
#microsoft this music thing is probably the most embarrassing i've ever seen and
heard," said another tweeter. According to the report, Microsoft's head of corporate
communications, Frank Shaw, later apologized on the micro blogging site. "This
routine had vulgar language, was inappropriate and was just not ok. We apologize
to our customers and partners," Shaw tweeted.
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